Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-05
PRODUCE.
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Wheeling.
We report a good market on batter arr
poultry, owing to cooler weather. Tn,
The demand for eggs has Improved
and prices on both butter and eggs hay,
advanced accordingly. Apples, fancy
stock, sell up close to the supply.
Green stuff is selling up pretty
close to the supply and prices have changed
but in a few instances since Oul
last report. Good stock is sold mp pretty
close TO the supply, but ordinary
stuff hangs on and is slow selling
The prices quoted below are wholesale hg
ures anda III green stuff is home raised. Thu
quotations are changed Oh Tuesdays anC
Fridays. but the market is liable TO HGc'
t~uatiOns between those days.
Butter-Demand brisk; choice creamery
30a3Oc; country choice 25a2Sc; good coun
Try 20a25C; COMMON safe; supply fair.
Beaus-New handpicked navy 81 pal II
per bushel; old 81 l0al 10; demand FOL
old slow, form good.
Dried Fruit-New evapOrated pared
peaches 30L55c; impaired do l5al7c; raSp
berries 20a22c; blackberries 9alOc;new sun
dried apples, quaTtered, 4c, sliced Aa5c;
peaches, new halves, 43a54c; do quarters
a5c;dO pared 15a1Sc;pitted cherries l2al3G
new evapOrated apples l0al2c. Market on
dried fruit nominal; demand moderate.
Cheese-Sales ina iobbing way of prime
mild Ohio factory at Sic; New York l4s
15c; SweitzeT 1lal2c; LimbergeT 9aiOc.
Eggs-Strictly fresh stock at l5a16c pei
doz. supply light and demand good.
Feathers-ChOice 5Oa55c, IN original
packages; 4a5c more in small lots.
Honcy-Choice white clover, 13al4C.
choice buckwheat, 12al4c.
POtatoes-ChOice new home raised, IS to
soc per bushel; demand light; supply good,
Poultry-Livc chickens, old So OOa3 y
per dozen; dressed chickens to lie pei
pound; turkeys, live Ease, dressed 9allc
per pound; demand good, supply fair;
ducks, live y 0Oa3 0O per doz. dressed,
I0al2c; dressed geese, case per pound.
~Raes-Stcady at Halle for white mixed
cotton; Ia! be for all wool and Hal &c for
mixed.
Seeds-Clover, per bushel, 81 75a5 %;
timothy, per bushel, 81 l5a2 80 Market
active. Extra clean blue grass, zoe; or
chard grass, 81 80; red top, cooper bushel.
Iard-COuntry prime, 53aGc; demand
fair.
Apples-Green, per Dbl. choice new,
s. OOa2 80; common 81 80 per barrel;
demand good; supply light.
Buckwheat FlOur-Per pound 2ia2!c.
Onions-New, 75caSl 90 per bushei; good
demand; supply light.
Cabbage-$I GOAL p per barrel; demand
good, supply light.
Sweet potatOes-$2 50 to- IS per barrel;
Jerseys, So 90 to 50; supply light; de-
mand good.
Cranberries-$2 rs to So 90 per bushel;
crate; good demand, supply good.
Nuts-Shellbark hickory nuts per bushel
$la1 %; walnuts 25a35c.
Parsnips-$l 25al 80 per barrel.
Turnips-$l per barrel.
KaleSl 75a2 90 per barrel.
Green OniOns-30c per dozen punches.
New York.
New YORK, March l.-FlOur-Lcss
active, but steady; receipts 10, $50 barrels
and sacks; exports $3.50 barrels, and
1903 sacks; sales, $4,000 barrels. Wheat
Spot !ajc better, but only moderately
active, options opened firm and iasc
higher, later ruled easier, and lost the
Improvement, subsequently advanced !asc
and closed firm; receipts a., 900 bush
els: exports 90, 30S bushels; sales 2,24S,-
600 bushels futures, and l9S, 200 bushels
spot; No. : spring Ole; No. l spring Ole;
ungraded spring sole; No. 3 red 924c;
No. l white 81 {; MOI red March soc;
April 90{a9O,, closing at 90sc; May
9lu93ic, closing ut Ole; June 81 5a92c,
closing at 92c; July 92lc; August 92ic;
September 929a93c, closing at 93c; De
ccmbcr 96a965c, closing at 96Sc. Corn
Spot ia9c and options falc higher; clos
ing firm; exports l,S22 bushels; sales
A., 800 bushels futures, 5000 bushels
spot; ungraded l7!a5Oic; No. . March soc;
April I~sBal9Ic, closing at 49!C; May Asa
Isle, closing at 4slc; June 4~S3a49!c, clos
ing ut 495c. Oats-Shade lower; re-
ceipts 3,325 bushels; exports $50 bush
els; sales 1000 bushels futures and 3d.
900 bushels spot; mixed western 3la
BE. Hay-Quiet and weak. lIOps-Un-
changed and dull. Coflee-SpOt fair;
Rio firm at 14ic; options higher; sales
GS, $50 bags; March, April, May, June,
July, August, September, IL. zoe;
October, II. ala. 75c; December II. Toe.
Sugar-Morc active and steadier; MuscO-
vado Isa44c; Manila 4!c; fair to good
refined iIc; refined tirmer; granulated
} Il-l6a53c. MolasSes-Dull. Petroleum
STEADY at 62.c. Tallow-Steady at
/ 4-lG Turpentine-Firm at 3S3a39c.
Egs Dull and lower; receipts 1916
packages. Wool-Easy; domestic llccccs
3Oa3Sc; pulled lla@G. Pork-firm and
fairly rctlve. Cut Mcats-Firm; picked
bellies 7dc; clear bellies re. Lard-At
2Ol2 &C. per 100 pounds higher and active;
western spot 81 579aT 60; April 81 47a
7 G5; May s. 53a7 %; June s. 51a7 7G;
city steam 81 l0a7 IL. Butter-Firm
and in fair demand. Cheese-Quiet and
barely steady.
CHICAGO, March An the markets
were active to-day, prices advancing rather
sharply throughout the entire list. During
the carly hours the market dragged heav-
lily. The market opened steady, with May
delivery at T9lc, but it broke to 7Sic under
free offerings. Bidding then became strong
er and there was asteady advance to 19{C,
the market closing at 79ic. Rye quiet.
Oats weak. Provisions again very active.
Receipts Olive hogs were small and prices
higher, which had a strengthening intlu-
euce on the market for products. The
shorts were anxious to purchase, and rs
the offerings were not very large the COM
petition was sunicientEtO advance prices
very rapidly. May pork opened at $40 90,
hut when the shorts began to bid prices
vent up quickly - 90 a barrel to S2l Oh,
and closed for the day at $50 30. Trading
in lard was on a free scale and there was a
steady advance OF p to b cents per 100
pounds, the market closing &Oc higher than
Yesterday. In short ribs IN advance OF 20
a75c per 100 lbs. occurred, and the sharp
advance created almost a panic among
'ShOrt" traders. The market fell back 20
cents and closed 5OIl5c higher than yes
teriay. Fiour-Steady and unchanged.